Barcelona

Data Munging and Analyzing Barcelona OSM Data

The XML data for the city boundary of Barcelona was downloaded from OSM to clean and transform into a json encodable structure to allow loading into MongoDB, providing storage and artbitrary querying to enable further data analysis of the Barcelona OSM dataset. I chose the Barcelona dataset because I just recently spent a few weeks there and noticed some pretty cool urban planning features of the city (ie. Avinguda Diagonal) that could be cool to explore further.

Inspired by the "Diagonality" of Barcelona streets and to give the scope of the project a little more focus, I will be attempting to analyze the Barcelona OSM data and see if I can generate a measure for the "degree of diagionality" for Barcelona and possibly compare this measure with other cities. Not knowing ahead of time the difficulty of this, I may eventually have to...